Daniil Dementjev

Defensive Midfielder - Znamya Truda
10 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Daniil Dementjev

21 Edition

The Znamya Truda Sentinel

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Daniel Yegorov, 21, steals the show — 7.78

Marked 7.78 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Player ratings

Alexandr Stavpets, 37, rolls back the years — 8.32

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.32 at 37, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Player ratings

Evgeny Morev runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Znamya Truda make home a hard place to visit

10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad

Words exchanged at Znamya Truda

Alexandr Stavpets and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match

Daniel Yegorov sends Znamya Truda past Dinamo St Petersburg

It finished 2‑1, and it was Daniel Yegorov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Znamya Truda.

The terraces

One of their own: Daniel Yegorov

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Alexey Naidenov

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

Kirill Yevseyev has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Kirill Yevseyev on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

In brief

Back issues
16 Edition

The Znamya Truda Sentinel

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Alexandr Kukushkin was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 33. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Tempers go at Znamya Truda

Alexandr Stavpets was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

Nobody wins at Znamya Truda

8 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Squad

Words at Znamya Truda training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitry Tashov is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Znamya Truda at the halfway mark

Half the programme played, position 4, 28 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Nikita Lebedev

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Znamya Truda are still strangers to each other

6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Alexandr Usov

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 15 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

The dugout

Kirill Yevseyev on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Kirill Yevseyev after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

In brief

4 Edition

The Znamya Truda Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Amir Fattakhov is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Amir Fattakhov: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Match

Maxim Boichenko sends Znamya Truda through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Maxim Boichenko obliged against Chertanovo. 2‑2 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Znamya Truda.

Transfer targets

Konstantin Kuzmichev due for a Znamya Truda medical

Everything agreed with Torpedo Vladimir, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets

Znamya Truda bid $63.0K for Ilja Volnov

The offer went to KDV Tomsk this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets

Volna tell Znamya Truda: Alexandr Volkov is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Words at Znamya Truda training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexey Naidenov is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Transfer targets

Znamya Truda try to borrow Daniil Dementjev

Lokomotiv Moscow have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Kirill Yevseyev was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Znamya Truda dressing room was either.

Squad

Timur Alikberov is a square peg at Znamya Truda

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

In brief